Chelsea completed a £12m move for St Etienne centre-back Kurt Zouma on Friday following their purchase of Egypt midfielder Mohamed Salah from Swiss champions Basel for a fee in the region of £11m, and the £21m signing of Benfica midfielder Nemanja Matic.

Meanwhile, Fulham bought Greece international striker Konstantinos Mitroglou from Olympiakos for about £11m, one of five players signed on Friday.

Crystal Palace signed five players including Wolves keeper Wayne Hennessey for £3m, and Blackpool winger Tom Ince. Cardiff and West Ham have both also been busy in the transfer market, bringing in a number of players.

On Friday, with the transfer deadline just hours away, spending had already passed the £700m mark for the first time, said Deloitte. The final total of £760m broke the previous record of £670m set in 2008-09.

Broadcasters BSkyB and BT paid hugely increased sums in summer 2012 when they secured packages of Premier League matches for broadcasting from the current 2013-14 season.

BSkyB paid a total of £2.28bn for the rights to 116 games per season from 2013-14 to 2015-16, while BT paid £736m for the rights to 38 games per season over the three-year period.

That was an increase of 70% on the previous rights packages, held by BSkyB and ESPN

January transfer windows in the English Championship and in Scotland also closed on Friday. The Wolves striker Leigh Griffiths completed his move to Celtic for an undisclosed fee.